From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bind mount bug?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:42:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711120042.26861.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711112326030.25431@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >This mounts the bindtest/ tree on test/ _without_ copying the mount
> >points which are found on subtrees. This is necessary to avoid loops
> >in the filesystem (bind mounts are somewhat like hardlinks on
> >directories, just without the headaches).
>
> What you seek is mount --rbind.
Thanks! That works fine with mount from util-linux-ng.
Busybox' mount (at least Debian's admittedly old 1.1.3 version) seems to
fail to do the recursing. I'll file a BR against busybox in Debian and
check that again when we have a more current version.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-11 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 10:06 Bind mount bug? Frans Pop
2007-11-11 10:22 ` Frans Pop
2007-11-11 22:00 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-11-11 22:40 ` Frans Pop
2007-11-11 22:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-11 23:42 ` Frans Pop [this message]
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